01/12/2012

(Good) Free App of the Day! Booksy: Learn to Read Platform

Today's free app is one we reviewed when it was released in October, but since we've added so many new fans since then I wanted to make sure everyone had seen it.

What's missing from almost iPad/iPhone ebooks? Reading comprehension questions. Booksy has them and an awesome auto-record feature! You can buy additional books for 99 cents each, but it comes with two books (Humpback Whales and Hello Bunny) for free. So, if you don't want to spend any money, think of it as just two free books...Enjoy!

From our 4-1/2 star review:

Enter Booksy, which provides ebooks for children Pre-K through second grade. It has the reading comprehension questions I wish every ebook had, and a lot of other really impressive features.

The most noteworthy of these features is that the app can detect when someone is reading its text and records it automatically.

I had Ethan read one of the stories, noticed this function the next day in the settings, and realized that it had automatically recorded his reading. A small, red dot appears to show that it is recording. (I wondered what the red dot was for!) If you enter an email address, it will even email you the recordings automatically when completed.